Nearly There.

How exciting, we have our first garden bed in! It has taken 6weeks of cutting down and cleaning up and we finally had the space for our first garden bed to go in. This is one of 5 we are doing. DH has been busy planting fruit trees around the yard and they are all going great, the soil is wonderfully fertile and our olive tree has grown about a foot in 4weeks.

We had the dingo in yesterday, he levelled the ground where all the holes were, dug up the garden from next to the stairs and levelled there also. What would have taken us a few more days to finish, he done in 1hour. Was much less back breaking, plus we had already done most of the hard work! Our second garden bed is getting into position, just needs levelling and straightening, and we have tomato and beetroot planted in the first bed. The kids are growing sunflowers in pots (right pic near the brown gates), and when I get back home from visiting everyone we will finish off the other garden beds. Hopefully we can sort out our chook pen not to far down the track also. DH has wrangled some bathtubs from renovators so we are in the process of sorting out a worm shed, so far we have been told the bath tubs are ready for collection so we purchased the bolts to build the shed - one step at a time!

Tomorrow I head off with the kids on our adventure to try and get our boat up here, which involves getting a new boat trailer, transferring the boat to the trailer and strapping it down ready for the 7hr trip back up here. Am hoping my old neighbour can spare me some time to help out! Oh, and we pick up Little Miss 3's new puppy dog named Rusty (the main reason for the trip!).

Am not sure how I am going to fare with a puppy on my 'holiday'! Will be an experience, that is for sure. The kids have adjusted to life wonderfully up here, though Little Miss 3 is starting to feel the heat on the hotter days, looking all flushed and  ready for a nap by 9am! I love being at home, though never realised how much a 4yo actually talks - it seems to start when his eyes open in the morning and does not stop until he goes to bed at night, and his sister is beginning to follow suit!

Enjoying It!

It has taken almost a month, but we have finally had time to casually enjoy the situation we have found ourself in! Our life presently revolves around our garden, demolishing what was there so we can put our own mark on it, and it sounds like rumours are rank and we are the talk of town. So what! It is our garden and we are putting our stamp on it and in 3months people will have forgotten what was there and appreciate alongside us what we have done. Our veggie seeds were potted yesterday and hopefully they dont need transplanting before the actual garden beds are ready!

Halfway through demolishing 'our' garden.

The kids do miss their old friends from daycare, but we have been going to a playgroup and they are slowly making new friends. As our focus has been on the garden, we have not spent too much time socialising, so when the prep orientation pack came in the mail today I was a touch excited. Given it is a small school with only 3 classes, I think making friends for my little boy will be a little easier next year!

So the highlight of our month here has been last weekend, a few birthdays celebrated and one fantastic day shared with our wonderful family. We spent our little girls 3rd birthday exploring our neighbourhood. We went to the beautiful Blackdown Tablelands and swam in some waterholes with little waterfalls which I am sure will thrive with the addition of a downpour of rain! A saussage sizzle lunch in the camping grounds shared with the local birds who actually stole the sausages out of our hands as they swooped past (a little scary). We ended up having to protect our sausages as we ate them so we did not go hungry!

Just 2 of the 'locals' eyeing off our lunch!

After the kids had a sleep on the way home, we freshened up and spent the evening at a local rodeo. It was our kids first rodeo, and they were excited, anxious, scared but in the end totally elated with their experience so much so that they did not sleep on the drive home, at 930 at night! The kids enjoyed playing with their bigger cousins, and were sad when they left. Master 4 was so that he would not go outside to say bye. Was very sad!

So everyone has left and it is back to gardening (and work for Hubby). The first day everyone had gone was a little quiet, but we got through it and are back in full swing of life here. I still have a few boxes to sort, but they are not important and I have nowhere to unpack to. There is a nice furniture store in town selling quality wooden furniture which is what we like, so I have been pricing pieces!

No matter what comes your way, make it your own and enjoy it, xo.